Here’s why you’ll love Viviane Sassen’s new photo book, ‘Roxanne II’

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Dutch fashion and fine art photographer Viviane Sassen’s new photo book Roxanne II is like a gallery of earthly delights, full of pictures of Sassen and her muse, Roxanne, visually colliding to make vibrant and ethereal mutual portraits. The photographer’s presence is felt in the shadows and paint imprints on her muse’s skin in one photograph; in the careless hand holding up a reflection to the trail of finger prints, in another. The book, which starts with a poem by the writer Maria Barnas, feels like a conversation between the artist and the model, where they sometimes seem to exchange roles to create the photographs. Take a look at some of them here.